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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Koch Brothers free from protesters in their home town : robber barons of Kansas- Part 3

Here
in WichitaKansas we have the offices and home of David
and Charles Koch. They are among the top $billionaires in the US. They not
only have a family fortune built, but they are deeply involved in politics
financing political PACs that give millions to conservative pro-business
candidates, as well as political front groups such as the Americans for
Prosperity political action group.

The
Koch Brothers have been involved in such new super PACs as ALEC,
which not only funds political candidates, but provides them with position
papers, model laws to promote and even pre-written speeches.

Even
before the election, when they didn’t realize their financial investments in
candidates was not going to pay off, they decided to act against their most
vocal opponents, the Occupy Movement.

According
to Natasha Lennard,
writing for Salon,
has exposed the Koch Brother’s newest tactics, paying protesters to disrupt
Occupy events. In Salon he writes;

”It seems an odd choice, to protest
against Occupy Wall Street; police forces around the country have already done
a thorough job of taking on Occupy groups throughout the year. However,
billionaire Koch brothers’ right-wing advocacy group Americans for Prosperity
is still concerned that Occupy needs dealing with.

On Thursday(last September of this year) in New York’s midtown, Americans for
Prosperity activists are gathering for a protest in a leg of their “Failing
Agenda Bus Tour,” aimed at disavowing government policies that would increase
national debt. On Thursday, however, the free market fans will take specific
aim at Occupy Wall Street.
A statement from Steve Lonegan, Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey state director, said of Occupy
participants, “These are people who despise free enterprise. They are not
attacking Wall Street. They are attacking the very freedoms that everyday
Americans cherish to pursue their own dreams and succeed.”

Lonegan
is not entirely wrong in his statement. There are those among us, especially
most of us who post here at Otto’s War Room, who despise his phoney “free
enterprise,” which for many of us, who have experience living these phoney
dreams, is a freedom for the 1%-ers and a lock of freedom for those of us who
have to work for them.

As
for “attacking the very freedoms that
everyday Americans cherish to pursue their own dreams and succeed,” obviously
not all Americans cherish the pursue of phoney dreams that only a handful of
people will actually realize. The fact that this groups has taken on Occupy,
when the mainstream is trying to portray the movement as a spent force, proves
the Koch Brothers realize there is a growing dissatisfaction with the system
they insist on forcing on us.

Lennard
pointed out in his article that 7,500 people have been arrested for Occupy
related activities last year. There we 200 arrested for the anniversary marches
and rallies in New York.

“Aggressive policing of Occupy has drawn broad
criticism, including from a United Nations special rapporteur on human
rights” he said.

As
the article went on, Lennard found that brutal police suppression of Occupy was
seen by Americans for Prosperity and their leader Lonegan as “too lenient.”
Since Lonegan can be considered a mouth-piece for the Koch Brothers, we can
only guess what kind of brutal treatment the group would LIKE to see for those
who stand up against this unjust system. The Koch’s and their lackeys seem to
believe complete annihilation is too good for those who would oppose their
God-head status in such places as Kansas.

One
place they don’t need their fake protesters is in Wichita. There are many progressive groups in
this city, but none have taken on the Koch Brothers, even though they have
offices, a factory and they have homes in Wichita.

Last
year there was a protest called OccupyKochTown
and it drew activist from all over the country. It was spearheaded by theSierra
Club. Since that time
there are no plans to hold protests against the Koch’s and their mighty divine
empire.

So
for those of us who want to take on these modern day aristocrats, we may have
to go to other cities were organizations are more interested in taking on the
economic and political power of the 1%. -សតិវអតុ

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